EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution

3 days ago by Blair to c/upliftingnews

The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths.

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The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths from air pollution.

hark 10 points 3 days ago

I hope to see this happen in my area. The kind of emissions I'm stuck having to breathe in, especially while I'm walking on a sidewalk next to a main road, is awful. Unfortunately, it's going to take much longer for the switch to happen here.

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spacesatan 6 points 2 days ago

Thank god biden put a 100% tariff on chinese EVs so that this wouldn't happen here.

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FiniteBanjo -15 points 3 days ago

Are we sure they aren't just weening off the genocide in Xinjiang and need an excuse for the change in demographic trends?

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BlameThePeacock 20 points 3 days ago

The air quality can be independently verified pretty easily, and we know that lower pollution reduces deaths.... so while your comment is trying to get a different point, it's not particularly good at doing so.

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FiniteBanjo -7 points 3 days ago

If my comment upsets you then it was intended to: fuck China. If they want this research to have legitimacy they should put the researchers' or institution's name in the headline instead of China.

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naught101 14 points 3 days ago

You can fuck China and also be happy that they have reduced air pollution

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FiniteBanjo -4 points 3 days ago

Yes I absolutely can, and curiously here I am saying Fuck China and some demographic on the fediverse is REALLY upset about that.

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BlameThePeacock 4 points 3 days ago

It's literally coming from Goodnewsnetwork.org

It's not like this is the BBC here.

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Chozo 3 points 3 days ago

Implying they would ever wean off of genocide?

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FiniteBanjo -1 points 3 days ago

Well they can't eradicate the same race of people forever.

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Aatube 0 points 3 days ago

I can no longer tell whether you're pro- or anti-China.

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FiniteBanjo 1 point 3 days ago

Look.

When you kill people, they die. Are you gonna kill them again? Because if China id doing that then they're more evil than I thought.

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Semjeza 2 points 3 days ago

Seeing as China takes ethnic and genetic registration pretty seriously, no?

Wow, any particular reason you have such a raging hate honer?

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Aatube 0 points 3 days ago

Not to mention, the Xinjiang part of this argument doesn't really make sense either. The Xinjiang stuff does not involve direct death (besides conditions being as horrible as prison) so that it is far worse than death: it kills the culture, is suspected of forcing organ donations, and institutes sterilization. Unfortunately for the Uyghurs, death is not involved here.

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FiniteBanjo 2 points 3 days ago

Oh it involves some amount of dorect death but actually the discussion is about birth rates.

As a whole it is not a serious comment claiming China is fudging nunbers, just sharing a reminder in case anybody almost saw China in a positive light for a moment.

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Aatube 1 point 2 days ago

it’s hard to tell whether you’re serious over text. next time, you could use tone indicators or an explanation to clarify a meaning!

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